1.0% ▼ -84.0%
Lower than 78% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 6.3%
- 2016: 1.0%
- 2021: 1.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Meridan Plains · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Meridan Plains
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Almost every single household in Meridan Plains owns a car, with only 1% of homes lacking a motor vehicle. This makes the area much more car-dependent than most other parts of the country. Most residents rely on private transport for their daily needs and travel.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Car ownership is very high here, and the number of homes without a vehicle has fallen by 5.3 percentage points since 2011. Nearly half of all households own two vehicles, while 16.2% have three.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Meridan Plains, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 46%, followed by 1 vehicle (31%) and 3 vehicles (16%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
No one in the area uses public transport to get to work, which is well below the national figure of 3.1%. Instead, 62.4% of workers drive themselves to work, and 12.4% work from home.
12.4% ▼ -0.2%
Higher than 73% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 12.4%
- 2016: 3.5%
- 2021: 12.4%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 1.2%
- 2016: 0.4%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of employed people who got to work by train, bus, ferry or tram/light rail as their only method of travel on census day.
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Meridan Plains [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL315059/meridan-plains/topic/transport